Thursday, July 9, 2015
Watch The Navy's Catapult Launch 4-Ton Sled Off An Aircraft Carrier
In the Navy you get to do all kinds of fun things, like
watch fighter jets come in for a landing on the deck of an aircraft
carrier or launch heavy stuff off that same deck.
U.S.
Ford-class aircraft carriers are now going to be equipped with a
railgun-catapult hybrid, which is an "electrically powered
electromagnetic projectile launcher", which they'll use to launch
aircraft from the deck of a carrier.
But
in this case the Navy crew aboard the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford were just
showing off their sweet new EMALS (Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch
System), demonstrating how easy it is for the EMALS to launch a 4 ton
sled.
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